Chapter 24 Freshman Exchange Meeting (1)
Adelaide responded out of politeness and offered to call each other by their first names.
She wanted to get a little closer to them so that she could find out more about Emilia.
I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Edward always feels that there is something strange about Emilia.
Edward couldn't describe clearly what this strange feeling was.
But she had a vague feeling that this girl, who had never appeared in the game, had a subtle incompatibility with this world, just like herself.
"Well, I see."
Emilia responded with a blank expression and a silly look.
"By the way, I heard that you and Al are in the same Noren class, I think we'll just..."
Rose was about to bring up a new topic.
But she was interrupted by a boy when she was halfway through her words.
"Senior Rose, I see you are here. Today's senior is also very beautiful and lovely."
The boy who was speaking rudely ignored Edward and the others, and walked straight up to Rose and said.
(Wow, now there's a troublesome guy... It's all because of that guy named Zimmerman. I forgot about this incident at the party.)
Edward looked at the boy and felt very troubled.
The boy's name is Lucius V. Hallward, and he is a sophomore one year older than Edward and others.
Lucius has always been in love with Rose, but has always been rejected by her.
For an average student, Lucius was extremely talented as a puppeteer.
He was proud and complacent, and therefore looked down on and envied Alfred, who had no talent as a puppeteer but was favored and loved by Rose.
In the game's plot, Lucius is jealous of Rose and Alfred's intimacy.
This caused a commotion at the freshman exchange meeting, forcing the frustrated Alfred to duel with him.
He challenged the first-year students to a duel in a deliberately provocative manner.
Adelaide felt that, to put it nicely, he was a very despicable and bad guy.
"Ah, it's Junior Holhua, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Rose showed a troubled expression and asked Lucius why he came.
"Senior Rose, didn't I tell you to just call me Lucius? You're really being polite."
Lucius glanced at Alfred and asked in a somewhat pretentious manner.
"I have already refused this matter before, right? Also, Junior Holhua, if possible, can you please not call me Senior Rose in the future?
It may sound rude, but it really bothers me that you call me that.”
Rose said with some embarrassment, glancing at Alfred beside her from time to time.
She seemed worried that Alfred might misunderstand something.
Alfred didn't say anything, but gently put his arm around Rose's shoulders and pulled her behind him.
"May I ask you are?"
He smiled at Lucius who was frowning.
"Lucius V. Hallward. You should be the young master of the Elect family, right?"
"That's really rude. My name is Alfred D. Elect, the 'young master of the Elect family' as Senior Holwar mentioned."
Alfred replied in a defiant voice.
He symbolically extended his hand to Lucius, indicating that he wanted to shake hands with him.
Lucius originally wanted to express his disdain for Alfred, so he didn't intend to shake hands with him.
But I don't know what Lucius was thinking about. He changed his mind at the last minute, showed a sinister smile and held the hand that Alfred extended.
He pulled Alfred towards him somewhat roughly and seemed to say something in Alfred's ear.
Unfortunately, from where Edward was, he couldn't hear what Lucius said.
However, she saw that Lucius, who had originally had an arrogant attitude, suddenly had a distorted expression due to pain.
He pushed Alfred away in panic and shook off his hand.
"You, you little brat?!"
Lucius roared in astonishment.
"You little brat? Excuse me, senior, what are you talking about? Are you okay?"
Alfred asked Lucius with a somewhat scary smile.
"you you……"
"Oh, Rose, you and little brother Al are here. I was wondering where you two had been!"
Just as the angry Lucius was about to say something, a beautiful girl with platinum hair tied into two ponytails pushed past him and came in front of Alfred.
(Eh? Isn’t this Aeril…)
Just when Edward was feeling somewhat stunned by the current situation.
Following behind Aeril, the student council president who had her long violet hair tied into a princess braid – Cecilia also walked over with a somewhat troubled expression.
"We meet again, Alfred."
Cecilia also greeted Alfred very cordially.
(Wait, wait a minute, aren’t you two dissatisfied with Alfred’s failure in the early stage because you like Rose very much? Why do I feel that you like Alfred quite a lot?)
Being left out, Adelaide fell into confusion.
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(Tsk, damn the last boss, the annoying yellow-haired guy, I will definitely make you pay later.)
Roderick felt extremely dissatisfied because his good fortune was ruined.
He came to a corner of the banquet hall, hoping to ease his unhappiness with delicious food and tasty drinks.
But Roderick's gaze accidentally fell on the group in the center of the banquet hall.
Liliana was surrounded by a bunch of boys and girls.
This made him feel even worse.
In fact, the first person Roderick wanted to chat up was Liliana.
Because unlike the protagonist in the game, Roderick does not have a powerful puppet like the Seraph, but a weird rock hyena.
If I were to do a mission involving combat next, it would probably be very difficult.
Therefore, Roderick originally planned to prioritize attacking Liliana to make up for his current lack of combat power.
Although the puppet summoned by Liliana did not match the one in Rodrick's memory, it was also an ancient species with very powerful combat capabilities.
Just doing the early combat missions will definitely be easy to handle.
However, Roderick, who had his wishful thinking in mind, was completely unable to squeeze into the group of students surrounding Liliana.
Not to mention talking to her directly, Roderick couldn't even walk up to Liliana...
So, he chose the next best option and approached Adelaide, who was very weak in the early stage but quite powerful in the later stage.
Because she was the only heroine left at this exchange meeting.
Rosalie was absent because she asked for leave, the senior from the fourth grade did not attend the exchange meeting, and the last heroine was a junior who would enter school next year...